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My journey - Wong Hon Wai 黃漢偉

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:15 AM PST

My journey - Wong Hon Wai 黃漢偉


Visit Schools in Air Itam (Chung Hwa A & B and Sin Kang Primary School)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:07 PM PST



As reported in Guangmin Daily

檳州3年撥8校201萬元

(檳城3日訊)過去3年,檳州政府已撥出201萬令吉給阿依淡區8間學校,分別是公民總校、公民一校、新江小學、僑南小學、中華AB校、鐘靈中學及鐘靈獨中。

家協理事帶領黃漢偉巡視教務處,這個作為老師工作的"戰地",應該好好重新規劃,以便加強教學效果。(圖:光明日報)

(檳城3日訊)過去3年,檳州政府已撥出201萬令吉給阿依淡區8間學校,分別是公民總校、公民一校、新江小學、僑南小學、中華AB校、鐘靈中學及鐘靈獨中。

黃漢偉週五巡視中華小學及新江小學以審核今年的撥款申請,他說,中華A校提出3項有關提昇草場的申請,共8萬令吉,B校主要鞏固學校旁的河堤和興建籬笆,防止泥土被侵蝕;新江小學則計劃提昇教務處和食堂基設。

他披露,除了廁所設備外,中華B校去年也申請提昇籃球場,如今,該藍球場很具有水準,尤其可移動的籃球板,完全適合小學生和成人使用。他相信,假以時日該校籃球隊肯定有所成就,學生對籃球的喜愛亦會隨之提高。

這項籃球場提昇工程共耗資22萬令吉,州政府撥款5萬5000令吉資助部份費用,其餘由董事部承擔。

"由於該校校舍旁邊的阿依淡河沒建防崩堤,導致泥土流失,恐會河水氾濫。我將要求水利灌溉局築起防崩堤,將泥土被侵蝕情況減到最低,而同樣坐落在河旁的僑南小學與公民一校早前也通過當局撥款,完成相關工程。"

自2009年起,州政府每年制度化撥款給各源流學校,各校董事部必須向州政府提出申請,隸屬州政府的華教協調委員會將委任各區議員親自瞭解校方需要,再呈報給該委員會作最後審批,其中的緊急事項會優先處理。

陪同出席者包括中華三校董事會主席盧福裕、總務林琮淞、副總務劉華山及董事陳榮端等。

新江申請2萬粉刷教室

新江小學家協主席兼董事呂順成說,去年向州政府申請到2萬9000令吉,用作粉刷二十多間課室內部及更換新窗簾,學生可在更舒適環境上課。

他披露,在使用這筆款項時,校方都儘量節省,油漆費拿到"友情價"1萬7000令吉,換窗簾8000令吉。今年打算翻新教務處,老師們也需要很好的工作環境,食堂都已陳舊,包括桌椅都要換過全新一批,遲些也要粉刷全校。


當天出席者尚有家協理事郭建漓、許碧雁等,黃漢偉說,曾考察過日本的中小學和大學,發現那裡的學校即使沒有堂皇的外觀,往往很重視教室裡面的環境,因為師生每天有5到6個小時是在課堂內的。

"日本人的自我紀律很強、時間觀念也很重,這全賴良好的校園對學生的訓練而成。"

他說,去年巡視新江小學時,就大膽建議不如專注在學校內觀,讓學生從小培養紀律的觀念,懂得自我規劃,把東西整齊擺放,無形中也將這個觀念帶回家裡與社會。(光明日報)


As reported in Sinchew Jit Pao (28-1-2011) I visited the school in year 2011 and now by the allocation from the State Government, the classrooms for Sinkang Primary School and the basketball court of Chung Hwa Primary School have a new look.

黃漢偉:勿強調外表包裝‧檳學府應注重"裡"


新江小學多個地方漏水情形,牆壁也出現了裂痕,校長黃亞發向縣教育局申請撥款兩年不果後,今年轉向檳州政府申請。(圖:星洲日報)



中華A校家協主席陳榮端(左起)、董事會副總務劉華山、A校校長黃亞和、B校校長廖育麟陪同黃漢偉巡視兩校共用的籃球場。這座籃球場年久失修,地面龜裂的情況嚴重,對球員影響很大。(圖:星洲日報)

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(檳城)檳州政府華教事務協調委員會委員黃漢偉,提醒州內各國民型學校若計劃提昇學校設備,應注重"裡"多於"外",不能一味強調外表的包裝,而忽視內在的需求的。

也是檳州行政議員的他說,"裡"指的就是學生上課用的教室,"外"則是學校的外觀。

環境好學生士氣增加

他認為,學生一天在教室的時間超過5、6小時,好的環境能夠增加他們的士氣,進而更有精神上課。

"反之,若把經費都投注在學校外觀,進行大肆裝修,教室卻殘舊不堪,設備也不足,那對學生來說是不具任何意義的。"

他以之前到美國夏威夷、日本廣島及中國上海考察當地中小學的經驗向諸校分享:"這些地方的學校,外表看起來可能很普通,但是,教室內的環境和種種設備卻都很舒服、先進,學生可以很快樂的在裡面好好地學習。"

提昇外觀多於課室

黃漢偉不諱言,自檳州政府宣佈撥款給華校後,一些學校提出的申請主要是放在提昇外觀,而非課室的需求上。

"當然,也有很多學校是申請撥款提昇教室設備的,這包括了一所位於興都廟內的淡米爾小學。學校把錢都挹注在裝修教室上,包括鋪上地磚等,在裡面上課,感覺非常棒!"

他昨日(1月27日)前往新江小學及孔聖廟中華小學A、B兩校巡視后,這麼說。

新江小學在較早前向檳州政府提出9萬6千500令吉的撥款,作為修葺圍牆、解決天花板漏水、裝修課室等之用;中華小學A校方面為3萬3千,以作為翻新3間學生廁所的費用;B校則申請6萬令吉,以整修兩校共用的籃球場。(星洲日報/大北馬)

Visit Schools in Air Itam (Kong Min Main School and Kong Min Cawangan Satu)

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 10:05 PM PST

As reported in Kwong Wah

亚依淡区8中小学申请拨款 黄汉伟率先巡审2校
二零一二年一月三十一日 凌晨十二时三十三分

(槟城30日讯)亚依淡区6所小学,一所国中与独中向槟州政府申请2012年学校制度化拨款,该区州议员黄汉伟,率先巡视该区内2间小学进行审核工作。

各区州议员需到选区内巡视并进行进行审核工作后,在2月17日前呈交报告,黄汉伟是首个巡视选区的州议员。亚依淡区内8所中小学包括公民总校、一校、中华AB校、新江小学、钟灵国中及独中都向槟州政府申请2012年学校制度化拨款,但侨南小学则没申请。

黄汉伟指出,根据《光华日报》周一(30日)的报道,124所华小、国民型中学及教会学校中,共116所学校提交申请,但有8所学校基于存有余款,或无重大发展计划,因此机会留给其他学校;有关报道是引述自槟州华教事务委员会主席章瑛。

身为槟州华教事务委员会其中一员的黄汉伟指出,宪法阐明,教育事务属于联邦政府权限,中央有义务制度化拨款华校,槟州政府冀望拨出款项后,协助提升州内华校的基设,为中央政府制度化拨款起到抛砖引玉的效果,同时向中央政府施压。

他指从2009年开始至今,区内8所华校共获201万6000令吉的拨款,包括今年初予钟灵独中的40万令吉。他相信这个拨款数额已远远超过前任几位国阵州议员的拨款,因为根据资料显示,早前的州议员拨款只限5000令吉至1万令吉。

是日,黄汉伟巡视公民总校及一校,了解学校的需求以进行审核工作。

提升3项基设 公民总校申请逾19万

公民总校共申请19万8000令吉的拨款,以供提升校内3项基设,黄汉伟在该校董事长周进钦、董事总务李琴侠及董事财政余勇华陪同下,巡视需提升基设场地。

申请的款项包括整修逾30年的篮球场,耗资4万5000令吉,屋顶漏水,重新更换需2万5000令吉,第3项则是建造有盖羽球场,需耗资12万8000令吉。

周进钦提及去年初曾向中央政府要求拨款供粉刷校舍经费,但至今还无下文,因此该校董事会决定今年杪寻求私人界赞助油漆,工人费则由该校董事部负责。

李琴侠呼吁国阵中央政府必须继续关注槟州华校,别因目前民联执政,而衍生的政治斗争祸延教育领域,她指教育是国家重要的一环,不可因此影响孩子的未来。

黄汉伟指出,该校除了注重提升硬体设备外,同时关注学校软体发展,该校去年联合另两所公民分校,在公民同学会撮合下,复办28年前的三校联合运动会,该运动会上届举行年份是1983年,同时是黄汉伟参与的一次。

公民一校8项申请 逾17万提升基设

公民一校是亚依淡区内唯一的微型华校,基于入口处位于上极乐寺的档口旁,加上校舍窄小,因此为了避免学生人数日益减少,该校共申请8项基设提升计划,要求17万7000令吉的拨款,保住现有的学生,同时吸引更多学生入读。

申请中首个要求是在新建成的极乐寺停车场增加另一个入口处,建一座新桥,让学生在该地通过桥越过校旁的河流进入学校,另一个用途则是为紧急事物发生时,可以更快疏散校内逾300名学生。该校财政陈福隆、总务郭狄历及董事兼公民三校同学会会长陈裕华今日带领黄汉伟巡视学校。

陈福隆指8项要求中,前5项迫切性较高,希望州政府可以批准。他说新桥需耗资8万5000令吉、第2项是将目前唯一的活动场地铺平需2万5000令吉、更换水槽需8500令吉、更换教务处屋顶5000令吉、修复面向极乐寺停车场的校内篱笆和学校正门需1万5000令吉,增加保安亭1万2000令吉及修复教务处地板更换成地砖需1万2000令吉。

陈福隆补充,去年获得的州政府拨款原定用作防崩措施,但该工程获得公共工程局免费修复,董事部决定将原有拨款,加上董事部存额,将学校后方重新规划,提升了图书馆、食堂、厕所及4间位于2楼的特别教室,包括2间辅导室、1间配有20架电脑的电脑室及音乐室。

Lim Lip Eng

Posted: 05 Feb 2012 07:10 AM PST

Lim Lip Eng


10 nabbed over Lim and Bersih posters

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 05:18 PM PST

Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/2/5/nation/10680611&sec=nation (5/2/2012)
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten people were nabbed for putting up posters that deride Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and two top officials of the Bersih 2.0 coalition at Taman Tun Dr Ismail here. The 10 were arrested a few hours after the posters were found pasted at several bus stops early yesterday.
"We have recorded their statements and are taking the necessary action on this matter," said Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid. He was not able to give details of the time the vandals were arrested, saying he had just returned from abroad and had yet to get more information on the matter. All the 10 men had been released on bail, he added.
The posters depicted images of Lim, Bersih 2.0 chairman Datuk Ambiga Sreenevaasan and national laureate Datuk A. Samad Said, who is Bersih 2.0 co-chairman. The posters depicting Ambiga and Samad displayed the words lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans and a caption that suggested a vote for Ambiga is a vote for free sex. The posters depicting Lim carried a Nazi swastika symbol and a caption that he is a racist.
Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng, whose constituency covers TTDI, said neighbours woke him early yesterday to tell him about the posters. "I was also informed about them via Facebook, Twitter and e-mails," he added.

DAP unfazed by Guan Eng, Ambiga 'hate' posters

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 05:15 PM PST

Photos by DAP TTDT
Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/188280 (4/2/2012)
DAP says the "hate" posters against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and public figures Ambiga Sreenevaasan and A Samad Said, found in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) this morning, will only make the people despise the perpetrators more.
"We forgive them whoever are responsible. The more they do it, the more people will despise them," said DAP MP for Segambut Lim Lip Eng. Lim through his Twitter reported that the offensive posters were "posted all over TTDI this morning".
One set depicts Guan Eng calling him 'anti-Malay', while the other depicts Bersih chairperson Ambiga and poet and national laureate Samad Said and reads "Vote Ambiga, Vote for free sex".
"We urge TTDI police to announce openly who the culprits are, because the police should be able to easily identify them through the many CCTV recently installed in TTDI under Najib's transformation programme," tweeted Lim.
The MP said in a statement later today that the posters were found at bus stops, public telephone booths and plastered over old posters along Jalan Datuk Sulaiman and Jalan Burhanoddin Helmi in the Kuala Lumpur suburb under his constituency. He expressed "disgust" at the intolerant, racist and politically-motivated posters. "Some cowards had put these posters overnight with an intolerable message (on it) as told to me by my TTDI supporters. "Upon checking in the later part of the morning this message has been torn off," said Lim.
Escaped cops' notice
He said it was a surprise that the police had not known about the exercise of putting up the posters, that took place along two main roads in the area and that must have taken a considerable amount of time. "A quick count of the posters measuring 1ft by 2ft confirmed that quite a substantial amount of money had been spent on this exercise," he added.
Lim slammed the perpetrators for such an act in a multiracial neighbourhood and on the eve of Prophet Muhammad's Birthday tomorrow.
"I suspect that the purpose was to create discord and suspicion. "I strongly urge the police to investigate and nab the culprits involved as this neighbourhood is one that is proud of the diversity of its residents and any racial discord intended shall not be tolerated. "It would be a shame if these posters are to remain any longer than the time they have been up," he said.
Related news: DAP MP slams anti-Guan Eng, Ambiga posters
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/dap-mp-slams-anti-guan-eng-ambiga-posters/

Lim Kit Siang

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 11:21 PM PST

Lim Kit Siang


1Care: What ails Malaysia’s healthcare system?

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:29 PM PST

— Mustafa K. Anuar The Malaysian Insider Feb 04, 2012 FEB 4 — Supposedly based on the UK National Health Service (NHS), the 1Care scheme is said to be aimed at financing the supposedly increasing costs of public health care while making it still affordable to the lower-income group. But we fear that, like most [...]

Mat Zain: Cops can determine ‘within hours’ if NFC funded umrah

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 11:18 PM PST

By Shannon Teoh The Malaysian Insider Feb 04, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — A former senior officer questioned today the police's reluctance to act against Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's family in the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal, saying it should only take "hours" to determine if they had misused project funds for their [...]

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Posted: 04 Feb 2012 01:04 PM PST

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Posted: 04 Feb 2012 11:10 AM PST

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Permohonan Tanah SJKT Changkat Ditolak oleh Kerajaan Zambry

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:19 PM PST

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Posted: 04 Feb 2012 09:36 AM PST

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Letter: Schemes for poor shall not be at the expense of EPF contributors

Posted: 04 Feb 2012 07:22 AM PST

Dear YB Tony Pua,

Permit me to introduce myself as a retiree  from private sector who had been an EPF contributor. I thank you very much for bringing up the issue of EPF advancing monies for low cost houses in Willayah Persekutuan. As much as we support schemes for supporting the poor, as rightly pointed out by you and others, it shall not be at the expense of EPF contributors like us. I wish to bring to your kind attention few issues which I hope your team will examine for the benefit of contributors like us. As this has direct and long term implication for every EPF contributor, I humbly request you to vehemently protest and protect innocent contributors like us.

1. Who is the borrower in this case and who is the lender? Only the lender can foreclose a property and if EPF is not the lender what is the use of a collateral? If EPF is not the direct lender what locus standi does EPF  have for foreclosure? Is there loan agreement with EPF and the borrower ie individual borrower? How is EPF going to implement land code act in the event of defaults? Is EPF permitted to lend to individuals who are not even EPF members? Can EPF, in this case as a 3rd party, take any action against defaulters? ( There is no guarantee etc). What recourse does EPF have in the event the organisation behind this does not exist after a few years as these loans can be as long as 25 years?

2. What is EPF's collection arrangement? Who is the debt collector? May be City Hall  of Kuala Lumpur will undertake this function but then what firm arrangements have been made? To disburse funds by March means, probably all formalities are likely to be overlooked.

Hope your team of Ahli Parlimen will will stand behind citizens like us and wish you good luck in all your endeavors.

Yours sincerely,

V

KLIA2: Malaysia Airports Has to Raise Additional RM600m

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:21 PM PST

The announcement by Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) to raise additional RM598 million in via new share placement proves that public interest has been compromised as a result of the cost of KLIA2 ballooning from RM1.7 billion to RM3.9 billion

Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad, Managing Director of MAHB had on 29th November 2011 denied that public funds will be used to fund the drastic increase in cost of KLIA2, the new "low-cost" airport.  He has earlier announced that the cost of the KLIA2 has increased to as much as RM3.9 billion.

The cost of the airport first announced in July 2007 by the Transport Minister then Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat was RM1.7 billion.  The airport was also supposed to be completed by September 2011 but has since been delayed several times to the now April 2013 deadline.

Despite Tan Sri Bashir's denial that public funds will not be used, MAHB has announced to Bursa Malaysia on 30th January that it will raise approximately RM598 million from a proposed share placement exercise.  In the info-memo submitted to the stock exchange, MAHB stated that "the gross proceeds to be raised from the Proposed Private Placement will be utilised to part finance the additional capital expenditure to be incurred as a result of the enhancement in specifications for the new low cost carrier at Kuala Lumpur International Airport"

The new equity will be raised via the issuance of 110 million new shares constituting 10% of MAHB share capital.

The action by MAHB to raise additional funds from the market proves that public financial interest has been compromised as a result of the RM2.2 billion increase in cost of KLIA2.

Existing major shareholders of MAHB which act indirectly as trustees to Government and public funds are forced to dilute their shareholding by 10% as a result of the exercise.  Khazanah which owns a majority stake of 54.0% in MAHB before this will have its stake reduced to 49.1%.  Similarly, the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) and Skim Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB) will have their 10.3% and 6.8% stakes slashed to 9.4% and 6.2% respectively.

The MAHB info-memo also stated that "assuming that the net earnings of the MAHB Group for the financial year ended 31 December 2011 remains unchanged, the earnings per share (EPS) of the MAHB Group will be reduced proportionately with the increase in the number of MAHB shares".

The above proposed issuance of new shares to raise funds, is on top of RM3.1 billion in debt MAHB has raised in 2010, of which RM2.5 billion has already been drawn down for the purposes of financing the new KLIA2.

Therefore it is completely ridiculous for Tan Sri Bashir to deny that "public funds will not be used" when it is clear, the Government and public interest in the project held by Khazanah, EPF and ASB have been compromised through a dilution of their stake as well as a reduction in earnings.  This has yet to take into account the fact that RM3.1 billion in debt has been incurred as a result of the cost overruns.  What is of concern to the public is the fact that MAHB's ability to repay the debt without future bailout by the Government is by no means assured.

We call upon the Ministry of Transport as well as Khazanah, who act as custodians of public funds and interest in MAHB to initiate and inquiry and investigation into the KLIA2 fiasco to ensure that those who have been negligent, intentional or otherwise, are brought to book and prevent future excesses by the guilty culprits.

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